Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is something to do.

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.